Reproductive Medicine
Finkelstein Thompson LLP and Cafferty Faucher LLP Announce Human Egg Donor Files Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Anticompetitive Agreement Among Reproductive Clinics and Agencies
Published in OBGYN and Reproduction Week, April 25th, 2011
2011 APR 25 -- A donor of human eggs has filed a class action complaint in the Northern District of California against the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, and a proposed class of reproductive clinics and agencies. The complaint alleges that those clinics and agencies agreed to fix and suppress the price paid to egg donors as compensation for the time, inconvenience, labor, and discomfort associated with egg donation in violation of federal antitrust law. It has been assigned case number 11-cv-01781.
According to the complaint, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine promulgated rules setting...
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